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20201214   CentOS is Dead   ⇢  

In 2004, the CentOS project started. The idea of the distribution was to be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This worked well for quite sometime. The Linux community was able to offer up a stable and useful distribution that rivaled corpor

20201123   Chips and Soda   ⇢  

_There's been a new Apple CPU, new Intel and AMD CPUs, and more in the months since I wrote this article. There's now evidence that I was very wrong. Apple's newest A series CPU (frpm which the M1 was built) is not much faster than its predecessor in any

20201115   Apple and the M1   ⇢  

Apple has announced the use of its own ARM processors and its own GPU architecture in the new Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, and Mac Mini. Apple also stated its intent to use future iterations of this technology in all of its other Macintosh models. The M1 (t

20201104   Multi-account Mutt   ⇢  

Mutt is a mail user agent. It's an old one. It doesn't have a GUI. The configuration of Mutt is the thing that normall turns people off about it. This is completely understandable. If you are not radically familiar with email in general, many of the optio

20201028   Slackware Current   ⇢  

Slackware Current usage isn't really explained anywhere, but it's somewhat necessary if you have hardware with which Slackware 14.2 doesn't work. Given that most hardware made within the last year or two isn't going to work much on 14.2, I will attempt to

20201020   MySQL and its 'open_files_limit'   ⇢  

So, very often, I come across a super annoying aspect of MySQL on so-called "modern" Linux (so-called because systemd doesn't render something suddenly up to date) where MySQL will not obey configuration variables set in its cnf file. The most annoying of

20200925   Open Source Fatigue   ⇢  

Traditional models of software development are largely dead. Even Microsoft no longer makes actual releases of software products. Instead, there is just release churn. Software is released, the release breaks a bunch of stuff, changes the behavior of the

20200703   Waste and Wasters Who Make It   ⇢  

There's a rather large issue in the technology industry that no one within the industry seems to care to talk about or to admit exists. The lone voices have been the grey beards who are largely ignored with “okay boomer” or similar epithets whether or not